However not all encryption algorithms can be cracked using quantum computers. The quantum computer cracking of encryption relies on the factorization algorithm and prime numbers but if an encryption is based on another technology the quantum computers aren't a help.
Assume that all security claims are false. It's just that any security hole hasn't been found yet.
There is always a way to hack something running software. Live with it, just make sure that you accept the risks of being overheard and that your address book may be downloaded to some third party that uses it for their own purposes.
As for companies - considering the large amount of phones and crap around anyone that really wants to listen in on secret conversations/information uses more targeted methods. Only a few in a company have something really secret. And most of those secrets are short-lived anyway.
The classic spy/bug method is still one of the best methods to use.
But security in devices is something that the manufacturer shall allow for, but it shall not constrain the user. Because if users have freedom in their devices every device will look different and it's harder to do a massive harvesting of interesting information.
I would say that SGU was at least something different from Atlantis, but it also looped back on itself. It's a closed environment that is hard to develop.
But in a way it's more psychological than action. Unfortunately the writers have never been able to keep the tension for the viewers right. Too much negative feelings.
And SGU is certainly not for the same audience as the original Stargate series. It's completely different. And I think that the "stones" feature where the minds are swapped between Earth and the starship is just degrading the story rather than improving it. I really dislike the parts where someones mind is transferred to Earth, it just blows the suspension completely.
However some kind of communication with Earth could have been a good feature, just ordinary voice/video would have done better. More viewer suspense and a broader spectrum of acting and more progress with the ship would have pushed the story forward a lot more.
Mind - you can do a lot of good stories with only a few special effects and simple costumes. And SGU at least have mostly simple costumes aside from a few aliens.
I think that the retailers has to provide an added value to the customer when a purchase is made.
That's not something that can be provided by an online store.
If the retailer do have a good support and handles the customers well when it comes to warranty replacements and returns then they can save the customer a lot of headache. A customer that has friendly thoughts about a retailer and the retailer provides small things like free coffee to the customer while he/she is browsing then it may make the customer more prone to buy the item at that store.
And for tech items like TV sets - use competent personnel that can help the customer to decide the right model.
One thing that really bugs me is that every retailer asks the customer for a membership card (or similar). It really annoys me, and if customers with a card gets rebate but I'm just a temporary customer that happens to be in that shop for some reason - then I'm seen as a second grade customer. Treat all customers alike - and well and you don't have to worry about membership benefits and so on.
None of the factors listed doesn't necessarily mean that the outcome is flawed.
However a survey that gives skewed results covering a small population means that a larger survey is useful in order to verify or discard the results of the first survey.
And it also depends on how the sponsors have influenced the survey.
At least - don't discard the results before they are verified to be incorrect.
As for the presented outcome of the survey - I'm not really surprised because from what I have seen from FOX isn't always well-balanced news reporting. In too many cases when I have been watching that channel they seems to find faults when it comes to democrats and others that doesn't hold the republican or right-wing republican stance, but they are seldom trying to find flaws on the republican side - or they try to play down those flaws.
Sure, but many of the bots are running the same password list, and if you block an IP address after a certain number of connections you will make it harder to penetrate your server.
It all depends on what you work with if the space needed is sufficient or not.
But when more and more people are stuffed together into a small space you may end up in a situation where the ventilation of the building is insufficient and people will start to be less efficient due to high CO2 levels in the blood.
And times turn good again? - I'm a bit pessimistic on that because employers will see that they can stuff people tighter and then they will continue to do so even in good times because the furniture they have purchased for compact working needs to be used and not wasted.
From a point of view - western world seems to pack people tighter and tighter and soon there will be a very small difference between working in the western world and in Asia when it comes to working conditions. Western world is talking about human rights but at the same time the human rights in the western world are silently cut down one slice at a time by various means.
1. Effects that are applied to make things more realistic, like making a scene look like it's filmed outdoors while it's in reality filmed in a studio. These have been around since the stone age in different forms - like back-projections. And they aren't really messing up the film, so if you have a lot of them nobody will really notice or care and they don't damage the story.
2. Effects that are supernatural - which means that they are presenting something to the viewer that isn't possible in reality. Like the Star Trek transporters, Superman Flying or Bond making love in Moonraker. Modern films have computer generated effects to a larger extent, which means that they are tricky to use because the human eye may see the special effect way too easy.
However - even when doing supernatural special effects the use of them as a background or transition is usually not something that disturbs the story. The Star Trek transporters are there as a transition part of the story, and not a key ingredient in most cases. The story could have worked without them, but they are an awesome feature. But when the story depends on a special effect care has to be taken to make the effect consistent and plausible to avoid ruining the story.
And then - the special effects department do exaggerations way too often. How many times aren't a car in an accident in a film burning? In real life that is a rare event. And when someone is shot he is thrown back instead of just sagging to the ground.
He has always been a known entity in acting, he just got a heavy "Kirk" label thrown on him once.
But without Shatner as Kirk with his temper Star Trek wouldn't have had such an impact. Of course the petty bickering between McCoy/Spock and the tech nerd Scotty were adding spice to the soup.
And I think that Shatner all the time since he got that Kirk character stuck to him never really could drop it - he became so much part of the character that it was hard for directors to really put him into another role without actually skewing the whole movie/series into something like a happening for Trekkies. Mind - it was not Shatners 'fault' - it was just something that happened.
Before Star Trek Shatner was known as an actor in several different single roles - like in 'Twilight Zone', but nothing remarkable from his part since he wasn't the main figure.
So he didn't really become an "A list" celebrity because he did the Kirk role just too good - he really was Kirk, not acting as Kirk.
But that is life for some actors. And maybe some actors really can live without being the supercelebrity that you can throw in whenever you need someone to "lift" a movie. Throw in Will Smith into a movie and suddenly you get a larger audience because he's the actor. Same goes for Stallone, Tom Hanks or Vin Diesel - but neither are connected so much to a specific role.
And other actors have lived with the same role bound to them - like Carrie Fisher. She is always going to be "Princess Leia" to a large number of people. And Hugh Laurie is probably always going to be stuck with the "House" role.
Actors can't always select what gets stuck to them, they just have to live with it and make the best from it.
I agree that the prices are absurd. If the roaming charges are just 10-20% over the local charges it's no big deal for most users but now it's also a factor of operators doing large steps in charges so the minimum charge is per started megabyte of data and per started minute of a call. This is actually adding to the income of the telecom operators since calls seldom are close to a minute or a megabyte.
It is still possible to set up a separate set of DNS servers to serve your dark net machines. And those DNS servers are your business, not the governments business.
But as you noted - a hosts file usually works pretty well.
The worst thing would be if the movie industry starts to move into an extreme recycling of actors and historic figures instead of adding new actors. But the movie industry is already biting it's own tail by recycling scripts that once were good at the time instead of finding new stories that haven't been filmed yet.
So I would say that if they are going to just work on recycling they will soon die.
And you also have to realize that in humanistic education they also use some rules that you actually can find when you look at them closely have a corresponding algorithm in mathematics - but the humanistic people do have a much more complicated method for doing something simple because they have a hard time to understand mathematics.
One real benefit is that if you are a company developing kernel code and contribute it back you will get goodwill and you will enhance the competence of your employees.
And the Linux kernel is a known stable solution that will be around for a while. It is also easy to find people with knowledge about the kernel itself (to some extent at least) which makes it easier for a company to find competence instead of having to waste training on the employees and hope that they will pay off in 6 to 12 months.
And the worst problem is that even if the browser is "immune" to tracking features the plugins needed to view many web sites - like Flash, PDF or SilverLight also have to be "immunized".
And to make sure that the user are traceable many sites checks thoroughly that the data they write isn't easy to remove.
So if anything - go after the web sites that tracks users instead.
First you have to figure out how your business works - what is the needs of the business?
If "everyone" only works at the office you can stick with stationary computers since they are generally more reliable than laptops and less prone to get stolen.
Slashdot Mirror
Do you trust 4chan for anything?
Was it really a good idea to post that link on slashdot - to a DDoS:ed site?
That would be the ultimate DDoS.
However not all encryption algorithms can be cracked using quantum computers. The quantum computer cracking of encryption relies on the factorization algorithm and prime numbers but if an encryption is based on another technology the quantum computers aren't a help.
So the Navajo code talkers are still safe.
Assume that all security claims are false. It's just that any security hole hasn't been found yet.
There is always a way to hack something running software. Live with it, just make sure that you accept the risks of being overheard and that your address book may be downloaded to some third party that uses it for their own purposes.
As for companies - considering the large amount of phones and crap around anyone that really wants to listen in on secret conversations/information uses more targeted methods. Only a few in a company have something really secret. And most of those secrets are short-lived anyway.
The classic spy/bug method is still one of the best methods to use.
But security in devices is something that the manufacturer shall allow for, but it shall not constrain the user. Because if users have freedom in their devices every device will look different and it's harder to do a massive harvesting of interesting information.
Until the day when a major ISP implements LSN and then gets blocked. Then they do figure that it's a bad idea.
However most ISP:s are extremely lazy and aren't even considering IPv6 because they are waiting for everyone else to do it.
I would say that SGU was at least something different from Atlantis, but it also looped back on itself. It's a closed environment that is hard to develop.
But in a way it's more psychological than action. Unfortunately the writers have never been able to keep the tension for the viewers right. Too much negative feelings.
And SGU is certainly not for the same audience as the original Stargate series. It's completely different. And I think that the "stones" feature where the minds are swapped between Earth and the starship is just degrading the story rather than improving it. I really dislike the parts where someones mind is transferred to Earth, it just blows the suspension completely.
However some kind of communication with Earth could have been a good feature, just ordinary voice/video would have done better. More viewer suspense and a broader spectrum of acting and more progress with the ship would have pushed the story forward a lot more.
Mind - you can do a lot of good stories with only a few special effects and simple costumes. And SGU at least have mostly simple costumes aside from a few aliens.
I think that the retailers has to provide an added value to the customer when a purchase is made.
That's not something that can be provided by an online store.
If the retailer do have a good support and handles the customers well when it comes to warranty replacements and returns then they can save the customer a lot of headache. A customer that has friendly thoughts about a retailer and the retailer provides small things like free coffee to the customer while he/she is browsing then it may make the customer more prone to buy the item at that store.
And for tech items like TV sets - use competent personnel that can help the customer to decide the right model.
One thing that really bugs me is that every retailer asks the customer for a membership card (or similar). It really annoys me, and if customers with a card gets rebate but I'm just a temporary customer that happens to be in that shop for some reason - then I'm seen as a second grade customer. Treat all customers alike - and well and you don't have to worry about membership benefits and so on.
None of the factors listed doesn't necessarily mean that the outcome is flawed.
However a survey that gives skewed results covering a small population means that a larger survey is useful in order to verify or discard the results of the first survey.
And it also depends on how the sponsors have influenced the survey.
At least - don't discard the results before they are verified to be incorrect.
As for the presented outcome of the survey - I'm not really surprised because from what I have seen from FOX isn't always well-balanced news reporting. In too many cases when I have been watching that channel they seems to find faults when it comes to democrats and others that doesn't hold the republican or right-wing republican stance, but they are seldom trying to find flaws on the republican side - or they try to play down those flaws.
Sure, but many of the bots are running the same password list, and if you block an IP address after a certain number of connections you will make it harder to penetrate your server.
It all depends on what you work with if the space needed is sufficient or not.
But when more and more people are stuffed together into a small space you may end up in a situation where the ventilation of the building is insufficient and people will start to be less efficient due to high CO2 levels in the blood.
And times turn good again? - I'm a bit pessimistic on that because employers will see that they can stuff people tighter and then they will continue to do so even in good times because the furniture they have purchased for compact working needs to be used and not wasted.
From a point of view - western world seems to pack people tighter and tighter and soon there will be a very small difference between working in the western world and in Asia when it comes to working conditions. Western world is talking about human rights but at the same time the human rights in the western world are silently cut down one slice at a time by various means.
Special effects can be in two categories.
1. Effects that are applied to make things more realistic, like making a scene look like it's filmed outdoors while it's in reality filmed in a studio. These have been around since the stone age in different forms - like back-projections. And they aren't really messing up the film, so if you have a lot of them nobody will really notice or care and they don't damage the story.
2. Effects that are supernatural - which means that they are presenting something to the viewer that isn't possible in reality. Like the Star Trek transporters, Superman Flying or Bond making love in Moonraker. Modern films have computer generated effects to a larger extent, which means that they are tricky to use because the human eye may see the special effect way too easy.
However - even when doing supernatural special effects the use of them as a background or transition is usually not something that disturbs the story. The Star Trek transporters are there as a transition part of the story, and not a key ingredient in most cases. The story could have worked without them, but they are an awesome feature. But when the story depends on a special effect care has to be taken to make the effect consistent and plausible to avoid ruining the story.
And then - the special effects department do exaggerations way too often. How many times aren't a car in an accident in a film burning? In real life that is a rare event. And when someone is shot he is thrown back instead of just sagging to the ground.
There is always a backdoor into a system, intentional or unintentional unless otherwise mathematically proven.
He has always been a known entity in acting, he just got a heavy "Kirk" label thrown on him once.
But without Shatner as Kirk with his temper Star Trek wouldn't have had such an impact. Of course the petty bickering between McCoy/Spock and the tech nerd Scotty were adding spice to the soup.
And I think that Shatner all the time since he got that Kirk character stuck to him never really could drop it - he became so much part of the character that it was hard for directors to really put him into another role without actually skewing the whole movie/series into something like a happening for Trekkies. Mind - it was not Shatners 'fault' - it was just something that happened.
Before Star Trek Shatner was known as an actor in several different single roles - like in 'Twilight Zone', but nothing remarkable from his part since he wasn't the main figure.
So he didn't really become an "A list" celebrity because he did the Kirk role just too good - he really was Kirk, not acting as Kirk.
But that is life for some actors. And maybe some actors really can live without being the supercelebrity that you can throw in whenever you need someone to "lift" a movie. Throw in Will Smith into a movie and suddenly you get a larger audience because he's the actor. Same goes for Stallone, Tom Hanks or Vin Diesel - but neither are connected so much to a specific role.
And other actors have lived with the same role bound to them - like Carrie Fisher. She is always going to be "Princess Leia" to a large number of people. And Hugh Laurie is probably always going to be stuck with the "House" role.
Actors can't always select what gets stuck to them, they just have to live with it and make the best from it.
I would say that the ping time is probably at par with the ping time of the protocol described in RFC 1149, a.k.a. IPoAC.
About the same time as Captain Kirk has completed his five year mission.
But mind - it's the wrong Voyager probe, this one isn't scheduled to become sentient.
I agree that the prices are absurd. If the roaming charges are just 10-20% over the local charges it's no big deal for most users but now it's also a factor of operators doing large steps in charges so the minimum charge is per started megabyte of data and per started minute of a call. This is actually adding to the income of the telecom operators since calls seldom are close to a minute or a megabyte.
The customers are ripped off...
It is still possible to set up a separate set of DNS servers to serve your dark net machines. And those DNS servers are your business, not the governments business.
But as you noted - a hosts file usually works pretty well.
The worst thing isn't one man's ideas.
The worst thing would be if the movie industry starts to move into an extreme recycling of actors and historic figures instead of adding new actors. But the movie industry is already biting it's own tail by recycling scripts that once were good at the time instead of finding new stories that haven't been filmed yet.
So I would say that if they are going to just work on recycling they will soon die.
Just because something changes from #1 to #2 doesn't mean that the era is at an end.
Compare to radio stations - they are around and kicking even though TV, video and the internet has come.
And someone that buys a phone/pad or whatever probably already has a PC.
And you also have to realize that in humanistic education they also use some rules that you actually can find when you look at them closely have a corresponding algorithm in mathematics - but the humanistic people do have a much more complicated method for doing something simple because they have a hard time to understand mathematics.
One real benefit is that if you are a company developing kernel code and contribute it back you will get goodwill and you will enhance the competence of your employees.
And the Linux kernel is a known stable solution that will be around for a while. It is also easy to find people with knowledge about the kernel itself (to some extent at least) which makes it easier for a company to find competence instead of having to waste training on the employees and hope that they will pay off in 6 to 12 months.
And the worst problem is that even if the browser is "immune" to tracking features the plugins needed to view many web sites - like Flash, PDF or SilverLight also have to be "immunized".
And to make sure that the user are traceable many sites checks thoroughly that the data they write isn't easy to remove.
So if anything - go after the web sites that tracks users instead.
First you have to figure out how your business works - what is the needs of the business?
If "everyone" only works at the office you can stick with stationary computers since they are generally more reliable than laptops and less prone to get stolen.
Telecommute is the modern answer - you don't need an office.
A few that may work for all generations.
Lego.
Music Instruments.
Hammer, Saw and nails.
Board Games.